The Winnewood native overcame barriers to become the first woman to lead a NASA program and helped make history during the ...

To help with its plans for long-term lunar visits and missions to Mars, NASA is putting together a year-long virtual program ...

Mars occupies a special place in the U.S. program of space exploration, and also in the minds of the public, because it is the most Earth-like planet in the solar system and the place where the first ...

Four good people with the Right Stuff (plus two alternates) will be selected for the Moon and Mars Exploration Analog, or ...

SpaceX's Starship/Super Heavy lifts off on Flight 9 May 27. Credit: SpaceX America has a once-in-a-generation opportunity to open the space frontier by initiating a sustained program of human ...

July 21–23 event at Rice University unites NASA leaders, astronauts, scientists, innovators, and space executives on ...

Two House committee members argue the U.S. must dominate space exploration as China invests heavily in lunar and satellite ...

NASA has assigned astronaut Deniz Burnham, a former Arctic oil-rig drilling engineer, to Soyuz MS-30 for Expedition 76. Her ...

U.S. President Donald Trump wants to tap the private sector to pave the way for human missions to Mars in a proposal that closely aligns with the goals of Elon Musk. The White House's 2026 budget ...

July 23 (UPI) --Planned moon and Mars missions require timely communications and navigation systems, which is prompting NASA officials to request ideas via proposals from U.S. firms. NASA on July 7 ...

ESA is studying repurposing the Earth Return Orbiter it planned to build for the Mars Sample Return program into a standalone science and communications orbiter. Credit: NASA/ESA/JPL-Caltech/GSFC ...

Suggested Citation: "Appendix A: The NASA Mars Exploration Program." National Research Council. 2003. Assessment of Mars Science and Mission Priorities. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press.